HBH 1896 March 5 2 RYDER Dr Emily Dr Emily Brainerd RYDER, a lecturer of considerable note, an advocate of rational dress for ladies engaged in walking, tennis, 'cycling, and similar active exercises, an authority on the science of cookery and hygiene, and a missionary on behalf of the child-wives of INDIA, has arrived in NAPIER and will deliver a course of lectures here, commencing in the Theatre Royal on Monday next with the attractive subject, "How not to be ill." Dr RYDER graduated at the Woman's College of Medicine of the University of NEW YORK in the class of 1875, after five years' medical study. She has also the Post Graduate diploma of the Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital of New York. Dr RYDER studied in VIENNA for nearly three years, residing in the hospital as physician the greater part of the time, and followed the classes and lectures of the world-renowned German professors of the University of Vienna. She passed her examinations under the most distinguished Viennese professors and doctors, and holds their certificates all bearing the German stamp. In addition to these qualifications the doctor spent six months in the hospitals of PARIS and six months in LONDON, principally with Sir T Spencer WELLS at the Samaritan Hospital and Sir Morell MACKENZIE at the Throat Hospital, and has practised medicine for the last 20 years in AMERICA and INDIA.